Interview with Alex Modny and Eric Musco on Bad Feeling Podcast

2018 before being bolstered.

I agree with this post. Are you [the devs] looking to prevent ALL aoes from stopping caps, or just the spammable ranged aoes? There is a big difference.

Was a new tier of gear mentioned for next season?

The way I can see this change affecting ranged more than melee is this:

Assume that AoE CC abilities will become the only way to deny a cap w/AoE. Most AoE CC abilities require the player to be in melee range, even those of the ranged classes (GS, Commando, and Sage knockbacks).

Melee classes who are currently relying on AoE damage skills to deny caps are, not surprisingly, already in melee range. Nothing really changes for them, other than that they hit a different skill to stop the cap (although not really, as most Juggs I see already rely primarily on their AoE CC to stop caps in Novare, to take one example).

Ranged classes who are currently relying on AoE damage skills to deny caps are, more likely than not, probably not in melee range when doing so. Now they have to consider saving things like the GS roll, Commando Hold the Line, or Sage force speed as gap closers to get within melee range of node cappers rather than using those skills as escape skills to get away from melee attackers, as many do now.

All that said, I do agree that it's kind of silly that some knob can stand 30m away out of LoS of the cappers and spam Force Storm indefinitely, so this change might be nice, but I can see how it might affect ranged a little more harshly than melee classes.

The system should make it pretty unpalatable to get 1 medal (you need to get at least one medal to get any rewards from the match) and then AFK, as the amount of Comms you would gain is much smaller than you would if you got 8 medals, win or loss. We will keep an eye on this though as we don't want to promote this behavior.

200,000 ?

I really like these changes... I'm still conflicted about the AoE thing, but still think that's better wait some more time to have a position about it...

About past rewards being available for new player, I think that you should separate in 2 types at least, rewards that could be given to anyone, like armor sets, crystals etc and exclusive items that only players that participated in the right time would be eligible for it.

Cause then you will be able to bank as many comms as you want before hitting level cap, I am assuming.

I'll answer you both right now, and I have a bit of the qualifications to do it. I was basically the strategist of my PvP guild on Ven Zallow at launch, the one that dominated the server.

Here is what you do, especially in VS but it'll work anywhere but NC. 1 guardian with Daunting Presence, 3-5 others stacked on top of him, everyone spam caps. You will not stop that cap in time even with 8 people there. Guardian AOE mezzes any standing near the node, entire group starts capping, guardian pops Saber Reflect and caps as well. Good luck cycling through tabs to stop everyone, even with a coordinated team.

Also Guardians with Daunting Presence will now be virtually GUARANTEED to remove the bomb from the door in VS, 5 seconds of reflecting SINGLE TARGET DAMAGE, which is the only thing that can interrupt it now.

Thank you for the reply.

I guess I'm just open to any change that forces us to make some tactical changes. I understand players concerns about AoE's, but I also think it could speed up gameplay a bit.